Wally the Wordworm

Help instill a love of words and language--and an early appreciation for their vast possibilities--with this read aloud for children.

A worm that lives on words, Wally finds himself starved for inspiration, until one day, he crawls into a magical book: the dictionary. What tasty discoveries he makes between its covers. Wally starts small but soon develops a taste for rarer words and gleefully twists himself into the likes of "syzygy" and "sesquipedalian," "pyx" and "zymurgy."

From its first publication in 1964, children and adults alike have been delighted by Wally's wriggling through rhymes and words of increasing ambition and complexity, his acrobatics whimsically illustrated by cartoonist Arnold Roth. Clifton Fadiman was a distinguished author, editor, and radio and television personality. Over the course of his career, he was the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, the book critic of The New Yorker, and the host of the popular radio program Information Please. In 1993, Fadiman received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This edition includes an afterword by Clifton Fadiman's daughter, Anne Fadiman, who wrote a memoir of her father, The Wine Lover's Daughter.

Wally the Wordworm is a one-of-a-kind read-aloud treat for word-loving parents and kids to share.

Author: Clifton Fadiman
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 10/31/2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.40h x 7.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781567926576
Audience: Ages 9-12

About the Author
Roth, Arnold: - Arnold Roth is an award-winning cartoonist based in New York City. His cartoons have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, TIME, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Punch, The New York Times, and many, many more. His illustrations are in permanent collections of a number of museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton. He is also the illustrator of Speaking of Dogs, a Godine classic.